After finishing the communication with Erin, Yu Sheng stopped resting and continued to move along the "external wall" of the Tower.

Now he no longer carried the large tail in his arms, making his movements much easier. The only inconvenience was that he had to be constantly cautious, planning each step in advance to grasp a position, and ensure not to use too much force during movement; otherwise, he risked detaching from the tower body and falling into the universe's space.

Walking out on the station without a safety rope in a spacewalk probably feels like this; once you really let go and drift away, he wouldn't know how to "swim" back in a vacuum weightless environment. At that time, he might only be able to open the door and go home.

However, perhaps he could first leave a "coordinate" on the shell of the tower? Although this thing might currently be in motion (without a point of reference, Yu Sheng couldn't tell if it was flying), if the coordinate was recorded with the tower body underfoot as the reference point, he should still be able to open the door and return later...

A multitude of thoughts swirled in Yu Sheng's mind, as he crossed a metal protrusion structure of unclear purpose, he stopped once again.

He pulled out his new "Bloodletting Knife"—made from the Fingertip Blade of the Artificial Saintess, enduring and extremely sharp—and then made a cut on his palm.

Blood directly sprayed out, accompanied by wisps of red mist, boiling in the vacuum environment.

Yu Sheng initially jumped at the sight, but quickly found the scene rather intriguing—fortunately, he hadn't forgotten why he was letting out blood, promptly focusing on controlling the spurting blood, making it slowly float towards the nearby tower shell.

Before the wound healed swiftly, the boiling blood had already quietly assimilated into the tower.

Yu Sheng slightly closed his eyes, perceiving the information conveyed by the blood.

He "saw" some vague structures. The tower transmitted its secrets to him: below the heavy armor that appeared to be rock but was in fact alloy, are complex pipes, lines, cavities, corridors, and many technological wonders that Yu Sheng couldn't even guess.

The range he could see was very limited, and within this limited range, he was attempting to find a path to infiltrate the tower's body.

Where the blood permeates, there is a path. But Yu Sheng needs to find a "safe" landing point for himself—he is not afraid of dying, but he fears dying too disgracefully. After all the effort to penetrate this far, to end up going in and being hacked up by cultists with a mere "ah" would be a huge embarrassment, Erin could rant about this until next month...

No suitable infiltration points were nearby, so Yu Sheng moved along the shell a bit further, applying his blood ritual near a chain connecting auxiliary facilities again.

After three consecutive attempts, he finally halted near an armor connection point, a pleasant expression appearing on his face.

Below here is a "safe passage", near the passage there was no sign of living beings, and several routes lead deeper inside.

Yu Sheng unhesitatingly placed his hand upon the thick and chilly alloy armor.

The armor was very thick, and below it there were several layers of protection, cushioning, and sensory structures, but the door Yu Sheng intended to open was not directly "cutting open" these thick layers; rather, it was forming a short-range teleportation channel, using the already penetrated blood as connection. The span of this channel was sufficient to traverse all structures on the Tower's outer shell, and circumvent any damage alarm systems that might exist beneath the armor.

Yu Sheng did not know much about spacecraft, but he guessed that this ship certainly had such alarm systems, to ensure that if something punctured the armor, those inside could immediately know—his task of infiltration obviously required exposing himself as late as possible.

The "door" quickly took shape.

Yu Sheng gently twisted the "handle", quietly pulling open the illusory door that abruptly appeared on the Tower's shell—

"I'm coming in..."

...

"We can't find him! The drones are already in position, nothing found outside."

"The 'Knight' is searching near cabin number three, nothing here as well."

"Sensors are also not responding—external monitors remain offline, when can this subsystem be fixed?!"

The "Sage" sat in the center of the Control Hall, his face gloomy, listening to reports and conversations around him.

A tense atmosphere enveloped the entire hall, but at least all the personnel had regained their composure; now everyone was doing what they were supposed to do, yet the Sage could clearly sense a kind of anxiety growing rapidly within everyone's hearts once again.

Because they couldn't find the "monster" moving on the Order Pillar's shell.

If that guy is indeed the culprit behind the previous cloaking failure and the teleportation failure, the current situation is undeniably dreadful—seeing a space hobo hitching a ride in the universe is certainly a shocking thing, but his vanishing instantly adds another layer of horror...

"Could it be some sort of collective hallucination?" Finally, someone cautiously voiced a hopeful possibility that everyone was hoping for, "We abruptly exited the teleportation state earlier, this would greatly stimulate the nervous system, there are case studies of collective hallucinations occurring in such circumstances."

"Are you talking about the 'Ruby' incident of Holy Calendar 1882? That ship, after a failed warp jump, stopped in space four light seconds from the Star Port, and the crew walked out without any protection—they thought they had safely returned home."

"Maybe, I mean, what if..."

"Enough," a member of the Hermit Order interrupted the meaningless conversation, "Instead of comforting ourselves with collective illusions, I'd rather believe that guy has already snuck in!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire hall fell silent in an instant.

And as if to pierce through this silence, a few seconds later, a member of the Hermit Order guarding the console suddenly broke the stillness.

"Report! The surveillance of the outer passage in the core area detected an invader... He really snuck in!"

The "Sage" in white robes leapt up at these words, and as those around him were puzzled and uncertain, instead, a faint smile appeared on his face.

"Very well—find him, resolve him!"

...

Yu Sheng felt a bit lost.

He had entered this Tower, only to find the structure inside was like a maze, filled with intersections and inexplicably strange rooms. The good news was there was gravity, and he could finally walk steadily, but the bad news was that in some areas, the gravity was evidently malfunctioning, causing him to suddenly "fall" to one side and then lose all sense of direction.

However, he felt this wasn't a big problem.

Because he didn't know the way around here in the first place, getting lost made no difference; moving around mainly relied on a blood-powered X-ray vision and a strong sense of confidence.

After wandering through a few corridors, he stopped in a deserted corner, then fished in his pocket to retrieve his phone.

Unlock, light up the screen, and enter the Border Communication interface.

Yu Sheng was sure that this seemingly ordinary "phone" was definitely packed with the Special Service Bureau's black technology. Not to mention anything else, just the fact that this device had accompanied him in the space environment for such a long time and still operated smoothly indicated that it couldn't possibly consist of ordinary "civilian components."

Of course, the most incredible thing was not that the phone wasn't damaged in space, but that when he took it out, he found it had a signal.

It had! A! Signal!

Originally, Yu Sheng planned to just casually take a few photos of the surroundings and surprise Baili Qing by opening a small door. Yet upon seeing the full signal on his phone, he was astonished. Swiping down the status bar, he noticed that the service provider suffix behind the signal had changed from "Boundary City Communication" to "Star Alliance Communications," with a note stating "currently using interstellar union channel, additional fees may apply..."

This left him amazed, but it didn't delay him from doing his job—after a brief moment of astonishment, he quickly took some snaps of the surroundings and turned on the phone's environmental data monitoring function, then sent a message to Baili Qing: "Guess where I am?"

In just a moment, he received a reply from Baili Qing, starting with a string of question marks: "??? You've already entered that Tower?!"

Yu Sheng was a bit surprised: "Ah, you know about this?"

"I received a report saying you were launched by Hu Li's tail and then disappeared into the mist of Mist City with that bizarre Tower," Baili Qing quickly replied—she had become quite adept at assembling such magical sentences with calmness and skill, "I called you several times earlier, but you didn't pick up."

Upon hearing this, Yu Sheng promptly checked his phone's call record, and indeed saw several missed calls, all from Baili Qing.

He was a bit bewildered, as he didn't remember hearing the phone ring at all, but within moments, he reacted and sent a message explaining: "Ah, maybe because I was in a vacuum earlier, I didn't hear it—and I was busy finding my way, so I didn't notice the phone vibrating."

Baili Qing sent another string of question marks.

Yu Sheng found it hard to explain the entire process of hitchhiking outside a spaceship and breaking in through the hull in a few words, so he merely replied vaguely: "The environment here is a bit complicated, I'll explain it to you later."

After sending the message, he glanced again at the wound on his hand, which had already healed. He took out the Bloodletting Knife from his pocket and made a cut on his palm.

Blood oozed from the wound, seemingly with a life of its own, floating slowly, covering the nearby walls and floor, and within seconds it permeated inside.

After confirming the blood had fully penetrated, Yu Sheng continued to move forward.

Stopping and continuing throughout, he kept performing this action.

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